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85104.00 – Trappers and hunters

Trappers and hunters trap and hunt wild animals for pelts or live sale.

Overview

Example job titles

  • Fur trapper
  • Game trapper
  • Hunter
  • Sealer
  • Trapper

Core competencies

  • Quality Control Testing to ensure traps, firearms and other equipment are functioning correctly
  • Equipment and Tool Selection, and Setting Up to select the appropriate trapping lines or equipment for animals and install traps according to safety requirements and regulations
  • Spatial Orientation to navigate through forests, mountains and other natural terrains to locate traps and return to their starting point or designated locations
  • Arm-Hand Steadiness to set traps and place them carefully to ensure they are effective and safe
  • Independence to handle tasks, make decisions and solve problems without relying on others
  • Knowledge in Livestock, Farm Animals & Wildlife to understand the behaviour and habits of different species to predict where and when animals are likely to be found

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

  • Set traps with bait and position traps along trails
  • Operate boats or snowmobiles or travel on foot, snowshoes or skis to patrol trapline or to reach hunting areas
  • Pursue animals by observing and recognizing tracks, trails, animal droppings or broken foliage
  • Remove catch and reset traps and snares
  • Kill and skin catch for pelts, and treat and pack pelts for marketing or for transport to public auctions
  • Kill wild animals using firearms or other weapons
  • Trap live animals for sale to buyers or for relocation purposes
  • Maintain and repair trapping and hunting equipment
  • Maintain trails and access to trapping lines or hunting regions
  • Trap designated animals for bounty or other control programs
  • May train dogs for hunting
  • May monitor animal population in the trapping or hunting regions to ensure future sustainability.

Additional information

  • In some jurisdictions, trappers may be allocated trapping areas based on their experience.
  • Trappers and hunters may specialize in trapping or hunting a particular kind of animal.

Similar occupations classified elsewhere

NOC hierarchy breakdown

NOC version

NOC 2021 Version 1.0

Broad occupational category

8 – Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations

TEER

5 – Occupations usually require short-term work demonstration and no formal education

Major group

85 – Harvesting, landscaping and natural resources labourers

Sub-major group

851 – Harvesting, landscaping and natural resources labourers

Minor group

8510 – Agriculture, horticulture and harvesting labourers and related occupations

Unit group

85104 – Trappers and hunters

Occupational profile

85104.00 – Trappers and hunters

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